Two ghosts shall be at the table. Smiling little faces. Growing. Giggling. Without their real mother because their father refuses to overcome himself.

In my dreams, in another life (can it please be this one) we are all together. We are this modern age “Leave it to Beaver” sitcom.

Mom, the tech entrepreneur and entertainer.. Grandfather the Banker.

Like a Mother duck and her line of babies, except mom has a briefcase and stilettos.

Of little hands and finger turkeys. Of silly nervous faces as they stuff the turkey. Of asking why the cranberry sauce looks like jello but doesn’t taste like it. Of sneaking that last bit of vegetables to the family dog and playing video games with mom. Of the big kid poker game with pretzels and marshmellows… of sparkling cider “champagne just like mom…”

We miss you my babies. Come home. Please let your father come to his senses… and just.. come home for Christmas since you can’t come home today.

Happiness is in the eye of the beholder, but only if the beholder is truly happy. No amount of money, sex, possessions or stimulants can truly compare to that of a person who has everything within. It’s like a ripple effect.

Think about that person on the road yesterday who cut you off. You in turn, flick someone off. Your drive home is aggravated. Behaviors are contagious. I dare you to make little changes like that for a week. See how it effects you.

Ask yourself the following questions:

1) Who do you see when you wake up and look in the mirror? Answer this inwardly as well as outwardly. Change starts with acknowledgment. So does acceptance.

2)When you get hurt, who feels the pain?

3)If you don’t succeed at life, who will you really let down?

So often we, as a people, find ourselves becoming the victim. Catch yourself before it happens.

It’s not wrong to be selfish all the time. Get that notion out of your head. The holidays are coming. Do something for yourself even if it’s something small. Try to avoid that holiday depression. It’s alright to moderate.

You must put yourself first before all others. You are the only thing that matters. You have to be happy with yourself. You have to live with yourself. Make yourself happy. It’s only then that you’re able to make someone else happy.

I’m making a resolution to do these actions, however small, whenever I’m having a horrible day. I repeated them many times after I had this conversation yesterday. Make today yours.. now it’s off for my cup of coffee.

I don’t regret this weekend. I probably should. But I don’t have a conscious. Or maybe I just don’t have a big enough heart.

Do I care about the grip? Without question. And he always knew this day was going to come. But when things heated up I didn’t know what to do. In the moment of “put up or shut up,” I went to what I knew best..

George Peppard: “I don’t want to put you in a cage, I just want to love you.”

Audrey: “Same thing.”

-Breakfast at Tiffanys

Maybe that point of monogamy was coming. Maybe I was getting closer to feeling less trapped.. I wanted things to go towards that happily ever after. I don’t think I’m as ready as I thought. My focus, had turned inwardly.

In the next coming weeks, there will be some blogs actually defining my experiences with polyamory, and how these relationships work and fail.

I’m not sure exactly if this one has failed. It would be my accord if it did.

Is there a such thing as cheating when you’re in an open relationship? I don’t understand, yet at the same time, I was stupid into not seeing this coming. So much for being open and discussing things.. about being honest with my actions, while having emotions attached.

I’m a bit lost. Do I feel my behavior was wrong? Yes and no. I made no promise of anything other than nothing. Day to day. I just wanted to let things happen. Perhaps I’m broken. Perhaps I’m not.

Honesty is the best policy? Communication is key?

Is it all bullshit?

I really hope that I haven’t lost him. I’m worried about him. I just am at a loss for words here.

I’m failing. I’m becoming numb to the rest of oblivion. I’m responsible, yet irresponsible. I’m behind on most everything even if I’m still moving forward. Life at a standstill.

The collection of notebooks scattered across my reality gives but a tiny fraction of a window to where I’ve been. Pieces of me. But never a full look see.

Once upon a time, I was just as scattered as the scrawlings in these notebooks. The parables and lessons.. all building up to the greater destination which ultimately may never be arrived at- me.

Like a quilt, woven woven.. handcrafted by the people in my life more than myself.. I wonder what the visual tapestry would be if it ever so existed.

The world of double lives.. multiple identities because maybe, just maybe, you’re a little afraid of that person staring back at you in the mirror. Is there such a thing as confidence through self doubt?

The thing about this particular book is that I can open it and randomly point my finger in it and learn something about myself. Each entry brings me back to relive the moment. I have a few blogs that I do that with as well. Some that never made it here. Some that are waiting the right time for their day to be shown to the world.

They are tales of the heart.Of where I’ve been. Of where I’m going.Of the spectrum of passion I’ve left in my memory like a plane writing messages in the sky.My marriage is dead.My children are gone.I have very little.

“My uncle can rant about the sun god.. & talk about not having enough money living on $200/day and how that’s not good enough…”

But what I do have are these stories.When I die, I’m not sure what I want done with these books.Different theories run around my head.Burn them? Let everyone read them and then burn them?Bury them in a time capsule?Or give them to one person for safe keeping?

Sometimes I have very little faith in people.

“I figured it out!You want to know why I smoke? Drink? Write? Do art? Because with this family… there’s never such a thing as enough of an escape.”

Others.. I feel such moments of levity that all the hurt and pain of it all seems worthwhile.

“Wow is this what you were trying to tell me? When you said wait because someday something so much more amazing than you could even ever imagine will come your way. To be patient…
This is surreal. Pinch me.
Will they live happily ever after?
i wish. i wish. i wish.
/clicks heels”

“i love looking through this & seeing despite how mature i am, i still feel the same.”

“Of everything that I don’t know who I am..I know this:

I am a vessel for life’s experiences.I need the ocean to wash away with me.There is a purpose to all these trials and tribulations.The cause is love. I am a character that rarely gets forgotten.Black and white… yet full of undeniable color.”

And so it goes. The stream of consciousness ever constant. Where life will take me and what will get scrawled on these pages in both the digital, handwritten, and etheral worlds, I don’t know. I don’t want to know yet. Because the journey is half the fun but the destination.. when it’s yourself..

I shall give you pieces of me. I’m not sure if I’ll ever give you the full me.

Once upon a time there was a girl with a story.. and she lived it instead of telling it.

And she lived.. happily through the pain.. but still kept going afterward.

Saturday, wait
And Sunday always comes too late
But Friday, never hesitate…

Friday afternoon:

He was running late. The grip and I were supposed to have lunch. He was going to bring a comic book for a friend at work. It had been a busy week. I didn’t know how busy of a weekend it would be. But when he finally arrived, nothing else mattered.

I’d been telling him about this little place that me and some coworkers had been going to at lunch for beer and Italian food. It’s a pleasant little time out in the day, makes the day go a bit faster.

He said he was picking up something to eat and apologized for the wait. He wanted me to walk out to the gate though. I asked him why and he just said it was a surprise.

About a month ago we’d gone to an In & Out and I gotten my burger a certain way. He not only remembered, but it has been something mentioned on a couple of occasions. He’d even gone on a late night drive and got one just the way I get mine while thinking of me. It probably sounds silly and cheesy. But when he came to my work with my burger and another one made specifically a certain way so he could still get kisses from me, it made me smile.

I work 5 minutes from the beach. I hadn’t taken the opportunity to go in months though. There’s something about the water.. about the smell and the feel of the sand that just makes me feel cleansed. Not a care in the world exists.

“Whatever you’ve done, I forgive you.” I said as we pulled up to the beach.

Burgers, beer, and my boy… it was lovely.

I even got a chance to dance…

It was only an hour. But of my day.. of my week.. it was the best surprise I’ve had in a long time. So for all those girls who ask for diamonds, they may be forever, but for me, it’s moments like this one that make life all the much more worthwhile.

Ah men.. capabile of such grand things as the invention of the wheel, and yet some still have the intelligence level of an ameba. Welcome back to the lessons we learned in middle school ladies.. if you want him, simply let him go.

Openly being masochistic, I decided to pursue this particular douchebag. He’d told me I was beautiful one minute, and the next I knew he’s blowing me off. After the last bit of talking down to- his version was that he’s “blunt take it or leave it,” I’d had enough. The pros of his conversations when he didn’t have his head up his ass did not outweigh the other words he said under “honesty.”

Don’t you love that? People saying something rude and then trying for a get-out-of-jail-free card with the whole “I’m just honest” bit? Yes, well I honestly think you need to grow the fuck up.

He’s right, I didn’t need that. So, despite my day being a bit longer than usual.. I ignored him. I said nothing rude to him. If anything, I’d just smile at him. I figured that if he really wanted to talk to me, that he’d approach me.

Ladies, this seems to be particularly effective with many alpha males- if for nothing else, showing that jerk that he’s not going to hold that power over you.

What will happen is one of three things. He will either:

Get frustrated that you are blowing him off and eventually back off.

Get frustrated that you are blowing him off and then decide he wants you- but will talk about you behind your back because he can’t have you.

See that you now have gained a power position, apologize and/or stop being a dick. Resume chasing you again.

Weather he blows you off or not, once he knows he can’t get to you.. you can regain your sanity, and chose to either walk away or walk all over him.

I was told that this guy was going nuts because I hadn’t talked to him all day. Ah.. and today is payday too. Tomorrow there is some shopping in order for perfume and some thrifting for some new outfits. Survival of the fittest ladies. Go get em.